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6 results for “LBMA Good Delivery” in Industry
Industry · 2 July 2026
Nine Nines: Inside a Modern Gold Refinery
…ssay, a technique older than the periodic table, remains the referee method for purity. · Good Delivery accreditation governs which bars trade without re-assay in the wholesale market. · Provenance documentation now determines a bar's marketability as much as its fineness. · What…
Tomas Herrera · 12 min read
Industry · 28 July 2026
Urban Mining: The Richest Gold Ore on Earth Is in Your Old Phone
A tonne of good underground ore holds a few grams of gold. A tonne of discarded circuit boards can hold two hundred. So why is most of it still going into landfill? · Concentration, not tonnage, is wha…
Tomas Herrera · 13 min read
Industry · 6 August 2026
The Scrap Trade
…ined, deliverable metal, and scrap is none of those things yet. Between the counter and a good delivery bar sit testing, transport, insurance, refining losses and refining charges, plus a margin at each intermediary. A buyer paying spot would be operating at a loss. · Is recycled…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
After the Cyanide
…dy being paid, and rarely appears in any discussion of what gold costs to produce. · What good closure looks like · The best-run closures share a shape. Reagent circuits are rinsed and neutralised before the plant is stripped. Tailings surfaces are capped to exclude oxygen and sh…
Tomas Herrera · 17 min read
Industry · 7 August 2026
How Fake Gold Is Detected
Counterfeiting gold is not about making something that looks right. It is about defeating a specific test, and the industry's defences are an escalating conversation between forgers and instruments. ·…
Tomas Herrera · 15 min read
Industry · 4 August 2026
The Gold Inside Your Phone
Industrial demand is the quietest third of the gold market: a few tenths of a gram per handset, multiplied by billions of devices, chosen not for prestige but because nothing else conducts as reliably…
Tomas Herrera · 15 min read
